Issue 50 > 05 November 2002
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There is a Better Covenant

The Law is indiscriminate for it will not make exceptions for position or wealth; that is the reason why one always find the law represented by a woman holding a set of scales in her left hand and a drawn sword in her right and she is usually blindfolded. Disobedience to the Law meant death and if the Law were to have its way, all of us would have been dead by now since we, as humans, are not infallible. We have all sinned and fall short of God's standards.

But praise be to Jesus for He came for one sole purpose; to deliver us from our position under the Law and to grant us our freedom from the bondage of sin. Because an innocent Person died for the guilty, we have been delivered from our positions of being condemned to our new positions as righteous Children of the Father. What a dramatic change He had wrought for us. We, who deserved eternal condemnation and separation from God the Creator, are now eternally reconciled to God the Father. No longer does God the Judge see us as we are but He sees Jesus the Righteous One in each of us and He is well pleased with what He sees. That is what it means when the Bible calls us the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.


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1. For the Law, since it
has only a shadow of the
good things to come and
not the very form of
things, can never, by the
same sacrifices which
they offer continually year
by year, make perfect
those who draw near.
Hebrews 10 : 1 NKJV

15 "He shall call upon Me,
and I will answer him;
I will be with him in
trouble;
I will deliver him and
honor him.
16 With long life
I will satisfy him,
and show him My
salvation. "
Psalms 91:15-16 NKJV
Hard Sayings of the Bible ( IVP Press)

1 John 5:14: Praying According to His Will?

All Christians believe in prayer, for the New Testament teaches us to pray; but some of the verses make us struggle with prayer. This is one of those verses. It forms part of the conclusion of 1 John and leads into a "health wish" (a standard part of the ending of Greek letters). It is not the place where we would expect radically new teaching on prayer, but a repetition of truths that the readers already know. Yet even what was a repetition for them may raise questions for us. What does it mean to ask "according to his will"? Does "he hears us" mean that he grants our request? If so, doesn't this fly in the face of the Christian experience of prayer? In other words, what is this "confidence" that John believes we should have? Is it something that makes sense in the light of the prayer experience of the church?


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All references taken from RBC, Pat Robertson, Ron Rhodes, Kenneth/Gloria Copeland, Charles Slagle, Smith Wigglesworth, Selwyn Hughes, Charles Spurgeon, Manners and Customs of Bible Times, The Complete Bible Handbook, The Spirit Filled Bible(NKJV), The NIV Bible, God's Promises for your every Need, Idiot's Guide to Bible Mysteries, Hard Sayings of The Bible, Articles courtesy of Mr Andrew L W Lee.